Drawing Together (Walker Stories)

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You can view work from these sessions by searching for #DrawingTogetherGM on most social media platforms. With Jamboard, collaboration isn’t limited to a single board. You may add additional frames, such as the frames shown along the top of Figure B. In fact, you may add up to a total of 20 frames within a single Jamboard file. This capability may make it easier to group or sort ideas, such as notes associated with different aspects of a project. The solution’s distinctive strength, though, may be the number of built-in templates, as shown in Figure C. Instead of focusing Drawing Together on visualizing a past experience, it’s also possible to use a forward-looking perspective. Have participants draw their professional journey for the upcoming 10 years, as they imagine it at this point in time. Other examples are: using Drawing together to visualize the product development life cycle, the future of a team or organization, or maybe even how they’ll handle conflict in the future. An advantage of a forward-looking perspective is that it allows the participants to truly draw together, instead of drawing alone and inspecting it together. 4. Use it as a recap structure

Drawing Together is a Liberating Structure that is all about creativity and interpretation. It’s a structure that you can easily use online. Especially when you want to really draw ‘together’. Just create a large online whiteboard with Mural, Miro, or a similar tool, and go wild! Sometimes I do ask participants to first draw their journey on a physical piece of paper. The combination of using physical paper within an online setting proves to be a powerful combination. Closing Invite participants to practice drawing the five symbols: circle, rectangle, triangle, spiral, star person. 5 min. min) Invite everyone to draw the first version of the story of their personal journey. Encourage participants to include the challenges, special moments, and surprises they faced while moving forward. Emphasize that drawing should take place in silence and without words or other symbols. Participants can use the same symbols multiple times. Don’t explain the intention of this structure too much, trust the creativity of the participants. Use as a template a progression from status quo, through call to novelty, discovery, validation, early adoption, and spreadAs always, I’m eager to learn from your experiences as well. How have you used Drawing Together? What works best for you? What other strings of Liberating Structures have you tried? Let’s learn and grow, together! About Drawing Together

Figure C Microsoft Whiteboard provides a significant number of templates to support tasks such as project planning, brainstorming and learning. Tove Jansson’s paintings and literature inspire me. Her art is full of messages of equity and justice among creatures (humans, Moomins, other) of all types. Some of these messages, for example on gender diversity, were revolutionary in her time in the 1940s to 1970s. What is made possible? You can help people access hidden knowledge such as feelings, attitudes, and patterns that are difficult to express with words. When people are tired, their brains are full, and they have reached the limits of logical thinking, you can help them evoke ideas that lie outside logical, step-by-step understanding of what is possible. Stories about individual or group transformations can be told with five easy-to-draw symbols that have universal meanings. The playful spirit of drawing together signals that more is possible and many new answers are expected. Drawing Together cuts through the culture of overreliance on what people say and write that constrains the emergence of novelty. It also provides a new avenue of expression for some people whose ideas would otherwise not surface. Drawing Together can serve as a perfect starting point for Conversation Cafe. For example, ask participants to draw their personal journey or challenges, and share it via Conversation Cafe afterward. 7. Use it as input for “Generative Relationships STAR” Collaboration tools on each of these three major platforms let you draw, type, add images and much more. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublicIt took until late 2022, but now all three major platform makers offer collaborative drawing board apps — or, as I like to think of these, digital drawing alternatives to napkins, notebooks and chalkboards. Apple Freeform, an app included as part of an iOS, iPadOS and macOS systems update in mid-December 2022, provides a versatile visual collaboration space, with support not only for drawn lines and typed text but also insertion of a wide range of images, files and shapes. min) Debrief important patterns with the whole group. What was it like to have your drawing interpreted by someone else? Whose interpretation was actually quite close to reality? What are some obvious patterns you noticed? Instead of using verbal language as its medium for interaction, Drawing Together makes use of constrained visual language with five purposefully abstract symbols. Steps to facilitate Drawing Together Apple Freeform, Google Jamboard and Microsoft Whiteboard, each explained briefly below, all allow you to draw and type on a virtual rectangular shaped space. This sort of unstructured sketching helps many people explore ideas or clarify concepts. When drawing with other people, these visual tools may help encapsulate or explain essential points and sequences.